Maria Couroucli (BA, MA Cantab, PhD, HDR Paris) is Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS. A historical anthropologist, she has worked on kinship and family, nationalism, identity, and religious practices in Modern Greece. She has directed several research projects, among them the RAMSES program on Sharing Sacred Spaces among Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Mediterranean (2003-2009) and the Balkan Futures program on heritage and intellectual traditions in Greece and the Balkans (British School at Athens/École française d'Athènes, 2011-2015). Her current research focuses on memory and uses of the past and on values and cultural practices in times on crisis.

Research interests

History and Anthropology

Anthropology of Religion

Anthropology of Memory, Heritage and Uses of the Past

Anthropology of the Crisis in Europe

Ethnography of Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean

Mobility

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Social Anthropology at Harvard University (1998-1999) and Stanley Seeger Research Fellow at Princeton University (2009).